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The flood was over almost as soon as it started, the reports said, as the crest swept out to sea. Rescue workers quickly moved into the area from Sari, about 25 miles further south. 60. It can be learnt from the text that _____. A. the news report is from Khemis NaguaB. the flood didn’t last long C. hundreds of Moroccans were savedD. Casablanca is a city in Africa 61. The report mainly tells the public about _____. A. how the flood swept the coastal plainB. why the terrible flood took place C. the flash flood in the fallD. a rescue attempt 62. According to the text, which of the following maps may be correct? (KN=Khemis Nagua C=Casablanca S=Safi) C Imagine a boy from a small village in East Africa. He, since a very early age, has been looking after cattle. At twelve years old he knows more about cattle than most of you. However, he has never been to school. Has this boy had any education? Education is discovering about ourselves and about the people and things around us. All the people who care about us — our parents, brothers, sisters, friends — are our teachers. In fact, we learn something from everyone we meet. We start learning on the day we were born, not on the first day we go to school. Every day we have new experiences, like finding a bird’s nest, discovering a new street in our neighborhood, making friends with someone we didn’t like before. New experiences are even more fun when we share them with other people. Encouragement from the people around us enables us to explore things as many as possible. As we grow up, we begin to find out what we are capable of doing. You may be good at cooking, or singing or playing football. You find this out by doing these things. Just thinking about cooking doesn’t tell you whether you are good at it. We learn so much just living from day to day. So why is school important? Of course you can learn some things better at home than at school, like how to do the shopping, and how to help old or disabled people who can’t do everything for themselves. At school, teachers help us to read and write. With their guidance, we begin to see things in different ways. 63. The writer takes the African boy as an example to show that _______. A. African children are very poor. B. some children are unlucky. C. there are many kinds of education.D. schools are of great importance. 64. In the opinion of the writer, . A. we have to learn from the people around us. B. the school is not important at all. C. only people who care for us can teach us. D. education takes place everywhere. 65. One can find out what he / she is good at by _. A. what people encourage him/ her to do. B. the teachings of those he / she meets. C. thinking about it when growing up. D. trying and practising things. 66. The passage tells us that _ . A. everyone gets education from the day he or she was born. B. different classes of people receive different kinds of education. C. the school is absolutely necessary if one wants to understand the world. D. everyone will find out what he or she is good at. 67. According to the last paragraph, we know that . A. the school is not so important as our living places. B. the school enables us to understand the world in other ways. C. the school teaches us things which are useless at home. D. the school cannot prepare us for our daily lives. D Do you know what it means when somebody tells you that he had “a catch-22 experience”? The phrase “catch-22” comes from a book of the same title by the American writer Joseph Heller published in 1961.Catch-22 is a book of black humor.The author uses silly and even surreal(超现实的)events.It has a non-linear narrative structure(非线性的叙述结构)in which events follow the theme rather than the timing，to give us a very strange picture full of contradictions(矛盾). The story takes places in a bomber base in Italy during World WarⅡ.The main character, Captain Yossarian wants to leave the war.Unfortunately, every time he completes the number of tasks to be sent home，the number is raised and he is forced to continue fighting.It seems hopeless for him to go home under the very strange rule in this Air Force-catch-22：only when a soldier goes crazy can he be allowed to go home.But he has to go to the hospital to show the doctors that he is crazy.However, if he tells them he is crazy but is obvious healthy, he cannot go home.In short，catch-22 is“heads 1 win，tails I lose.If you can you can’t;and if you can’t，you can.”Whenever you try to behave correctly in a crazy world.There’s a catch(潜在的困难). During the Vietnam War, the phrase“catch-22”became a popular term for being caught in a no.win，circular dilemma and is now commonly used.The Oxford English Dictionary explains catch.22 as“a set of circumstances in which one requirement，etc，is dependent upon another, which is in turn dependent upon the first.” 68. Which of the following statements is right? A. Catch-22 is one of Heller’s experiences during World War II. B. Catch-22 is one of Yossarian’s experiences during the Vietnam War. C. The events in catch-22 follow the theme. D. The events in catch-22 follow the timing. 69. Why did Captain Yossarian fail to leave the war? A. He wasn’t so anxious to leave the war. B. He didn’t finish his tasks. C. He was put into a catch-22 situation. D. He wasn’t mad enough to be sent home. 70. What does the underlined sentence most probably mean? A. Whenever and however you try, you are unable to reach the goal. B. You can solve every problem you meet as long as you want to. C. You can’t solve any problem in your life. D. If you can’t solve all the problems.you can solve none. 71. The phrase“catch-22”came into being ________ _. A. in World War IIB. in the Vietnam WarC. in the 1950sD. in the 1960s E (责任编辑：admin) |